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Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease #health

Everyday microplastics could be fueling heart disease
Microplastics—tiny particles now found in food, water, air, and even human tissues—may directly accelerate artery-clogging disease, and new research shows the danger may be far greater for males. In mice, environmentally realistic doses of microplastics dramatically worsened plaque buildup, altered key vascular cells, and activated harmful genes linked to inflammation and atherosclerosis, all without changes to weight or cholesterol.

It was a beautiful day for #flying in southern California. Visibility was at least 90 miles, and I managed to squeeze nearly 2 hours out of a few thermals near Warner Springs before making a stop at Santa Catalina Island on the way home.
#aviation

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.

Running my own full-service, multi-tenanted & multi-domain email service gives me a remarkable feeling of power. It's is seriously cool (been running 4 of them for a bunch of years). In other news, Mailcow is superb - . https://mailcow.email/ (I run their Dockerized install)

Viral YouTube Film Investigates How Milk Is Farmed In India #AnimalRights

Viral YouTube Film Investigates How Milk Is Farmed In India
A new short film about how milk is farmed in India has gone viral, and shows the filmmakers visiting farms in seven Indian towns

MetLife Stadium playing surface under the microscope again following Malik Nabers' knee injury

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/metlife

Heartbreaking. They’re barely recovering from Beryl. #HurricaneMelissa
https://abcnews.go.com/US/disastrous-images-emerge-jamaica…

Disastrous images emerge from Jamaica following direct hit by Hurricane Melissa
"Communities and towns no longer look the same," said the prime minister.

NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti.
The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.
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Jeremy Hsu (@jeremyhsu.bsky.social)
NOAA hurricane hunters flying aboard a P-3 Orion aircraft ("Kermit") are monitoring Hurricane Melissa as most aircraft steer clear. The storm poses a catastrophic threat to Jamaica and Haiti. The crew are among the many federal workers working without pay during the US government shutdown.

Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-brings-its-short-form-video-feed-of…

Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe | TechCrunch
Meta says that since the launch of Vibes, media generation in the Meta AI app has jumped more than tenfold.

Meta launches Vibes, its short-form video feed of AI-generated videos, in Europe through the Meta AI app, following its US debut six weeks earlier (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/06/meta-brings-its-short-form-video-feed-of…

Meta brings its short-form video feed of AI slop to Europe | TechCrunch
Meta says that since the launch of Vibes, media generation in the Meta AI app has jumped more than tenfold.